Stories by luu

Fluxcapacitor: spoof Posix time functions

Pynchon: Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?

On the prominence of women on HN

The Rising Silver Tide: Aging as Counter Current to Innovation

The Military Machine as a Management Wreck

Lead and Crime: Assessing the Evidence

Extent of Desegregation in Higher Education

IBM Z-series (mainframe) transactional memory [pdf]

David Pollak and Dick Wall Discuss Barriers to Scala Adoption

Robots are taking your job and mine: deal with it

Sexism In Science

Lessons in Technology and Innovation from the iPad 3 Graphics and Display

Tim Ferriss's Marketing Strategy, or, Marketing That Is Impervious To Criticism

Blue-collar knowledge workers will save the economy

Gender Roles: When women dare to outearn men

Kludgeocracy: the opacity of the state is important

Boosted Decision Trees for Deep Learning

Ways to get fired from Caesars: theft or running an experiment without a control

The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing

Offshoring and Directed Technical Change